G is for Googol

G is for Googol

Author: David M. Schwartz

Publisher: Tricycle Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 9781883672584

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Explains the meaning of mathematical terms which begin with the different letters of the alphabet from abacus, binary, and cubit to zillion.


Can You Count to a Googol?

Can You Count to a Googol?

Author: Robert E. Wells

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0807592668

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2000 Gold Seal Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio A Best Book for Children 2001, Science Books & Film You may be able to count all the way to one hundred, but have you ever counted to a googol? It's impossible! In this fun book of numbers, Robert E. Wells explores the wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named.


Really Big Numbers

Really Big Numbers

Author: Richard Evan Schwartz

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1470414252

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In the American Mathematical Society's first-ever book for kids (and kids at heart), mathematician and author Richard Evan Schwartz leads math lovers of all ages on an innovative and strikingly illustrated journey through the infinite number system. By means of engaging, imaginative visuals and endearing narration, Schwartz manages the monumental task of presenting the complex concept of Big Numbers in fresh and relatable ways. The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers.


Q Is for Quark

Q Is for Quark

Author: David M. Schwartz

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1582463034

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Explains the meaning of scientific terms which start with the different letters of the alphabet, beginning with atom, black hole, and clone.


Googol Boy

Googol Boy

Author: John Michael

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1922387312

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When an unassuming, rather clueless teenager is zapped by lightning while working on his computer, he absorbs all the information off the internet and his (very) ordinary brain starts to exhibit extraordinary potential. As Howie struggles to control his new-found power he is faced with all sorts of hilarious predicaments, from contending with mega-mean teachers to being ridiculed by the school braniac, a petite know-it-all determined to humiliate him. Can Howie overcome the enormous obstacles before him to defeat his annoying arch-nemesis and solve the peculiar mystery of the stolen Great Quiz Trophy?


Animal Antipodes

Animal Antipodes

Author: Carly Allen-Fletcher

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1939547490

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"If you dug a hole all the way to the other side of the earth, where would you be? What animals would you see?"--


Mathematics and the Imagination

Mathematics and the Imagination

Author: Edward Kasner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0486320278

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With wit and clarity, the authors progress from simple arithmetic to calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. Their subjects: geometry, plane and fancy; puzzles that made mathematical history; tantalizing paradoxes; more. Includes 169 figures.


If You Hopped Like A Frog

If You Hopped Like A Frog

Author: David M. Schwartz

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1338193732

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How far could you hop?If you hopped like a frog...you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap!Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight?Read this book and find out what you could do -- if you had the amazing abilities of animals! And there are endless possibilities for making more hilarious comparisons of your own. Get ready for ratio and proportion like you've never seen them before!


Rotten Pumpkin

Rotten Pumpkin

Author: David M. Schwartz

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1939547032

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The amazing transformation of Jack from grinning pumpkin to mold-mottled wreckage to hopeful green shoot tells the story of decomposition. Features a teacher guide.


Super Potato Gets Buff

Super Potato Gets Buff

Author: Artur Laperla

Publisher: Graphic Universe ™

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1728424763

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Gigantic flies are on a rampage at the Cortex research center, thanks to a beam that boosted their molecules! Fortunately, the technology behind the giant flies also leads to a gigantic Super Potato . . . who's delighted with his new muscles.